Actually, starting in the late 80's Disney was paying Pixar to develop CAPS. It wasn't a ton of money but it helped quite a bit, from what I understand (Pixar wasn't always a huge money-making machine).
You're right! I never realized that the Academy members have different tastes than you do until just this minute! I feel so unclean even thinking (like a lot of people here) that the efx for those Matrix movies kinda sucked. Unclean! Unclean!
Please, start our own awards show. I need to feel clean again.
Hold on a second. When CDs came out they were twice as expensive as LPs. Labels said this was due to their limited manufacturing ability at the time (it was limited). Flash forward to when CD manufacturing costs plummetted. Where was the corresponding plummet in price? There was none, the labels enjoyed the fat profit of their inflated price. The labels made their bed with their own greed and now they get to lay in it.
What other form of entertainment even comes close to offering this much bang-for-the-buck?
Right now I can walk down the street and purchase "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly", a three-hour movie, remastered and fully restored, for ten bucks. I can then walk over to the music aisle and get an old, not remastered CD of the soundtrack (about 30 minutes of music) for eleven bucks.
In conclusion:
CDs are not cheap.
DVD sales are going through the roof. Learn by example.
The record labels can cry me a river. They did it to themselves.
I buy at least that volume of CDs (which doesn't include my online purchases). For me, there are some albums that I've been meaning to get for years but, for whatever reason, haven't gotten around to purchasing. Fleetwood Mac's eponymous album comes immediately to mind. Always wanted it. Never wanted to spend the $$ for a new CD. Couldn't find it used for years or when I did I had a pile of other stuff already. Along comes iTunes and there it is. CLICK. Now I have the album. I have other reasons for buying albums online (like "I can't find this album used for less than iTunes' $9.99.") but I'm still buying CDs. Everybody's different.
While Hayes dreamed of empire, Heatherington dreamed of quitting.
It's one of life's paradoxes that those who are most able to accumulate lots of $$ are those who are least able to enjoy it. It's nice to find someone who can enjoy it.
Easily? Who said anything about easy? How easy is it to build a browser from scratch? Using the existing code may have been hard but the choice they made was obviously the wrong choice.
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I'm sure that as soon as she heard my random playlist going from Bulgarian folk music to Slayer, the thrill would be gone. Sigh.
With a Walkman or Discman or whatever, you're listening to just one album. An iPod can hold the entire music collections of most people. One album is not much of a reflection of a person's tastes but their whole collection, obviously, is.
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In a perfect company with perfect managers, perhaps. Your rose-colored glasses approach doesn't account for:
Incompetent fellow managers.
Incompetent managers above you
Unreasonable deadlines that occasionally come up.
Employees you'd love to get rid of but can't for one reason or another.
There's more but you get the idea. Managers, for better or worse, have to work with humans, who are notoriously non-deterministic.
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They sold the sucky product to win a short-term victory, and they're still doing it today.
Somebody marked this as Insightful? Microsoft won the war. Utterly. How long would it have taken to use the old code base? Less time that to code the new features and write everything else from scratch. Guaranteed.
Integrity? How much integrity does Netscape have? None because they're gone.
If the captain of the Titanic had gotten into a lifeboat after striking the iceberg, by your (implied) logic he could have claimed the sinking wasn't his fault because the boat was still afloat when he left.
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And I actually enjoyted "Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever"...
Worst...title...for a movie...ever.
Actually, starting in the late 80's Disney was paying Pixar to develop CAPS. It wasn't a ton of money but it helped quite a bit, from what I understand (Pixar wasn't always a huge money-making machine).
You're right! I never realized that the Academy members have different tastes than you do until just this minute! I feel so unclean even thinking (like a lot of people here) that the efx for those Matrix movies kinda sucked. Unclean! Unclean!
Please, start our own awards show. I need to feel clean again.
then what was the poin(t) of Kill Bill, IYHO?
To rock. It did.
Bah! I got married in 1987. You puppies!
Thank you, Mr. Birch. If you step this way you can avoid the Black Helicopters.
CDS ARE CHEAP.
Hold on a second. When CDs came out they were twice as expensive as LPs. Labels said this was due to their limited manufacturing ability at the time (it was limited). Flash forward to when CD manufacturing costs plummetted. Where was the corresponding plummet in price? There was none, the labels enjoyed the fat profit of their inflated price. The labels made their bed with their own greed and now they get to lay in it.
What other form of entertainment even comes close to offering this much bang-for-the-buck?
Right now I can walk down the street and purchase "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly", a three-hour movie, remastered and fully restored, for ten bucks. I can then walk over to the music aisle and get an old, not remastered CD of the soundtrack (about 30 minutes of music) for eleven bucks.
In conclusion:
I buy at least that volume of CDs (which doesn't include my online purchases). For me, there are some albums that I've been meaning to get for years but, for whatever reason, haven't gotten around to purchasing. Fleetwood Mac's eponymous album comes immediately to mind. Always wanted it. Never wanted to spend the $$ for a new CD. Couldn't find it used for years or when I did I had a pile of other stuff already. Along comes iTunes and there it is. CLICK. Now I have the album. I have other reasons for buying albums online (like "I can't find this album used for less than iTunes' $9.99.") but I'm still buying CDs. Everybody's different.
The images were black and white, and at that time Jenni was a really hot-looking girl.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers when she was hot. I was doubting my memory because nobody else remembered. Ah yes, the Tour of Her Body...
Yep. My boss told me this one in 1986.
I remember often not being able to wait and firing off the process by hand...by walking three miles in the snow and liking it!
While Hayes dreamed of empire, Heatherington dreamed of quitting.
It's one of life's paradoxes that those who are most able to accumulate lots of $$ are those who are least able to enjoy it. It's nice to find someone who can enjoy it.
Considering all my friends running OsX have no idea what their root password is...
That's because your friends' boxes don't have their root login enabled by default so there is no root password, troll.
Actually, after I posted I realized I should have written "iDone". ;-) .Done works, too.
That said, is there any good reason why somebody couldn't just remake mp3.com with ogg vorbis?
You mean other than nobody is going to make any money on a music site with just ogg downloads?
Seriously. iMac, .Mac, iBlog. Done.
Why does it matter whether you're listening to a single album or their whole collection if the event only lasts a minute?
Maybe your events last only a minute. Mine last considerably longer.
Say the above in a Cartman voice for maximum hilarity.
Easily? Who said anything about easy? How easy is it to build a browser from scratch? Using the existing code may have been hard but the choice they made was obviously the wrong choice.
I'm sure that as soon as she heard my random playlist going from Bulgarian folk music to Slayer, the thrill would be gone. Sigh.
With a Walkman or Discman or whatever, you're listening to just one album. An iPod can hold the entire music collections of most people. One album is not much of a reflection of a person's tastes but their whole collection, obviously, is.
In a perfect company with perfect managers, perhaps. Your rose-colored glasses approach doesn't account for:
There's more but you get the idea. Managers, for better or worse, have to work with humans, who are notoriously non-deterministic.
They sold the sucky product to win a short-term victory, and they're still doing it today.
Somebody marked this as Insightful? Microsoft won the war. Utterly. How long would it have taken to use the old code base? Less time that to code the new features and write everything else from scratch. Guaranteed.
Integrity? How much integrity does Netscape have? None because they're gone.
If the captain of the Titanic had gotten into a lifeboat after striking the iceberg, by your (implied) logic he could have claimed the sinking wasn't his fault because the boat was still afloat when he left.
Are you a military history buff? I'm by no means not...
What does that mean??? I'm not being sarcastic. I really don't know.